“…Logistics management actions were related to the locations of suppliers (Nakamichi et al, 2016), the length of the transportation routes (Azadeh et al, 2015;Elhedhli & Merrick, 2012;Nakamichi et al, 2016) or the distances between suppliers, manufacturers, and customers (Huang et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2014), the mode of transportation and number of vehicles (Haddadsisakht & Ryan, 2018;Huang et al, 2016;Nakamichi et al, 2016), the number of shipments in a manufacturer's cycle (Bazan et al, 2015), and the capacity of distribution centers (Elhedhli & Merrick, 2012;Jaber et al, 2013). Actions in managing the customer relationship were the size of customer demand (Azadeh et al, 2015;Huang et al, 2016) or the size of customer orders (Zhang et al, 2014).…”